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Meeting
Minutes
: 2002-04-30 conference call
Meeting
Secretary: Suellen Stringer-Hye - Review and Publication: Bernard Vatant
Release: 2002, May 2.
Attending members:
Bernard
Vatant, James David Mason, Mary Nishikawa, Suellen Stringer-Hye,
Steve Pepper, Michael Priestley, Lars Marius Garshol, Thomas Bandholtz.
Membership Status
Michael Priestley's
60 day prospective member status expired.
Motion to accept him as voting member of TC passed unanimously.
Process Issues
Meeting addressed process
issues as set out in the agenda.
2.a - "Redefining
the scope"
-- Stay focus on
TM applications or expand the scope to other "semantic applications"?
PROPOSAL : Stay focus on TM applications in Deliverable 1 - push the
issue of generalization to Deliverable 3.
Decision:
Remove all unnecessary Topic Map language from final proposal but use
Topic Maps exclusively in process discussions to identify issues.
-- Keep on trying
to deliver straight away a general recommendation for *any* kind of
subjects, and/or focus first on specific use cases (classifications)
and procede by further generalization?
PROPOSAL : Use the classification use case as a test-bed and illustration
of the general recommendation.
Decision:
Deliver general recommendation.
2.b - "Eating
our dog food"
-- Part 1 : Many
debate about those "core" or "paradigmatic" PSIs
lately. Is it in PubSubj TC scope to settle that debate? (Who is to
publish and maintain those core PSIs? Under which domain name? etc ...)
PROPOSAL : This is ISO 13250 dog food. Let them eat it.
Decision:
Proposal accepted
-- Part 2 : What
PSIs do we need for our own recommendations? Issues similar to the above
...
PROPOSAL : This is our dog food. Let's start a list of subjects - figure
where/how to publish them later on.
Decision:
Proposal Accepted. Everyone on committee will begin compiling list.
Lars Marius's Proposal
It was decided to discuss this proposal
first.
Information Types
(1) human-readable
definitions of each published subject
(2) a human-readable
description of the PS set,
(3) formal assertions
in machine-readable form about the published
subjects,
(4) formal metadata
in machine-readable form about the PSD.
Decision:
Agreement that these are the categories of information about which we
have been discussing the particular elements. Agreement to add the subject
framework to the final recommendation and incorporate existing elements
into it. Lars Marius will submit a more formal version of the original
proposal
Packaging
Many issues arose in this discussion that we agreed to add to an "issues
document" to be addressed after initial foundational concepts were
established. Bernard will add to document.
Steve's Proposal
Steve retracted his original proposal for expressing PSIs in XTM.
After working through the process he determined that it was unnecessarily
complicated to to do it this way and that a simpler approach using XHTML
would be likely to have wider acceptance. The proposal will be placed
in an "historical document" that Bernard will create.
Proposal:
Example PSIs should be in XHTML and we should also include examples
of how to use them in XTM and RDF.
We agreed to accomplish the following
- Revisit Recommendation
to remove any unnecessary reference to "Topic Maps"
- Work towards incorporating
the 4 "information types" into the current recommendation
- Categorize all
issues using the above terminology
- Lars Marius will
write a more formal version of the proposal
Next Meeting
The next meeting
is scheduled for Barcelona. Bernard will try to set up conference call
for those who won't be attending conference.
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